Improvement in cotton-planters



.D. BRONAUG-H, 2 Sheets-Sheetl Cotton-Planter.

N0.19 8,O76. Patented Dec.11,1877

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D. BRONAUGH.

Cotton-Planter.

No. 198,076. Patented Dec. 11, 1877 INVENTOR G I ATTORNEYS N PETERS, PHOTu-LITHQGRAPHER, WASHINGTDN, D c,

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DAVID BRONAUGH, OF KENTUCKY TOWN, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198.076, dated December 11, 1877 application filed November 17, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID BRONAUGH, of Kentucky Town, in the county of Grayson and State of Texas, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Cotton Planters;

- and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the 0011- struction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation section of my cotton-planter, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

My invention relates to machines for planting cotton-seeds; and consists in the combination of the means described for dropping the grain and the sliding bottom beneath the hopper, as specified and claimed.

A of the drawings represents two parallel bars, which constitute the frame of my planter. B represents the handles, and G O C the I opening and covering plows, respectively. D

represents a driving-wheel, to the journal of which are attached two pulleys, all, as shown on Fig. 2. E represents the hopper or seedholder, under which, and upon the frame A, I arrange the sliding bottom G. This bottom has a'rectangular opening, 0, in its rear end for the passage of the seed downward, in which I aflfix a brush, (marked 0.) It has also an opening or handle at its front end, (marked by which the operator is enabled to adjust it in the desired position or remove it, at will.

The letter h represents a shaft, having a series of teeth upon its surface, adapted for agitating the cotton-seed inside the hopper, and drawing such seed toward the exit thereof through the sliding bottom G. This shaft has a pulley, g, on one end, as shown on Fig. 2, and is actuated by a belt or cord, lo, by which it is connected with the pulley a of the driving-wheel. 4 v

The letter H represents a shaft arranged upon the frame at the rear of the hopper.

This shaft is provided with a toothed drum, n, and a pulley, 3 arranged and constructed as shown in the drawings. The pulley 3 is connected with the pulley a of the driving-wheel by the belt or cord 2, and the shaft is actuated thereby. The letter 10 represents a gutter or spoutydown which the seed is passed to the ground.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The slotted hopper E, with its sliding bottom G, having slot 0 and brush a, in combination with the toothed shaft 72., toothed drum a, plow G, and seed-tube p, the whole constructed, arranged, and operated in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

DAVID BRONAUGH.

Witnesses:

'A. J. RAY, M. D., P. MOKENNA. 

